Criminal Victimization and Perceptions of Community Safety in 12 United States Cities, 1998 (ICPSR 2743)

This collection presents survey data from 12 cities in the
United States regarding criminal victimization, perceptions of
community safety, and satisfaction with local police. Participating
cities included Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, Knoxville, TN, Los
Angeles, CA, Madison, WI, New York, NY, San Diego, CA, Savannah, GA,
Spokane, WA, Springfield, MA, Tucson, AZ, and Washington, DC. The
survey used the current National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
questionnaire with a series of supplemental... (more info)

This collection presents survey data from 12 cities in the
United States regarding criminal victimization, perceptions of
community safety, and satisfaction with local police. Participating
cities included Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, Knoxville, TN, Los
Angeles, CA, Madison, WI, New York, NY, San Diego, CA, Savannah, GA,
Spokane, WA, Springfield, MA, Tucson, AZ, and Washington, DC. The
survey used the current National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
questionnaire with a series of supplemental questions measuring the
attitudes in each city. Respondents were asked about incidents that
occurred within the past 12 months. Information on the following
crimes was collected: violent crimes of rape, robbery, aggravated
assault, and simple assault, personal crimes of theft, and household
crimes of burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft.
Part 1, Household-Level Data, covers the number of household
respondents, their ages, type of housing, size of residence, number of
telephone lines and numbers, and language spoken in the household.
Part 2, Person-Level Data, includes information on respondents' sex,
relationship to householder, age, marital status, education, race,
time spent in the housing unit, personal crime and victimization
experiences, perceptions of neighborhood crime, job and professional
demographics, and experience and satisfaction with local police.
Variables in Part 3, Incident-Level Data, concern the details of
crimes in which the respondents were involved, and the police response
to the crimes.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Criminal Victimization and Perceptions of Community Safety in 12 United States Cities, 1998. ICPSR02743-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02743.v1

Universe:
Individuals aged 12 and older in 12 cities of the United
States that had police departments representing varying stages in
the development of community policing. The 12 cities chosen were
Chicago, IL, Kansas City, MO, Knoxville, TN, Los Angeles, CA, Madison,
WI, New York, NY, San Diego, CA, Savannah, GA, Spokane, WA,
Springfield, MA, Tucson, AZ, and Washington, DC.

Data Types:
survey data

Methodology

Sample:
Approximately 800 households in each of the 12 cities were
contacted through random-digit dialing (RDD). The findings from this
survey are not intended to represent national estimates.

Data Source:

telephone interviews

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Standardized missing values.

Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1999-10-01

Version History:

2006-01-18 File CB2743.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.